Art audiobooks

The Goon Show Compendium Volume Three: Series 6, Part 1

By: Spike Milligan

Narrated by: Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers & Spike Milligan

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Immensely popular and hugely influential, the groundbreaking series The Goon Show changed the face of British comedy. Now, for the first time, this box set collection presents the episodes in chronological order as they were scheduled to be broadcast.

This third volume includes: 'The Man Who Won the War', 'The Secret Escritoire', 'The Lost... Read more

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Sapper's Bulldog Drummond

By: Sapper & Cyril McNeile

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads Sapper's thrilling adventures of private detective Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond, as heard on BBC Radio. In these six episodes, the demobbed officer offers his services to any client offering adventure. This leads him into danger and dashing escapades, as he finds himself grappling a gorilla; trying to save the realm... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Toby Stephens & Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy's story of one woman's fate is brought powerfully to life in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation starring Teresa Gallagher and Toby Stephens. Anna Karenina enjoys a privileged and aristrocratic lifestyle as the wife of influential government official Alexy Karenin. Yet their ten-year marriage is devoid of tenderness, and when Anna... Read more

The Whitney I Knew

By: BeBe Winans & Tim Willard

Narrated by: BeBe Winans

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the Whitney only family would know... Somewhere outside the glare of the concert spotlights... behind the tawdry entertainment news headlines... beyond the crush of the scandal-seeking paparazzi... lies the truth about Whitney Houston. And few individuals are better qualified to show us that complicated, funny, generous, troubled,... Read more

Design Like Apple

By: John Edson

Narrated by: John Edson & Erik Synnestvedt

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From his earliest days at Apple, Steve Jobs set the standard that all products should be "insanely great." Apple sees design as a tool for creating beautiful experiences that surprise and delight, but also convey a point of view down to the smallest detail—from the tactile feedback of a keyboard to the out-of-the-box experience of an iPhone... Read more

The Natural

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened-to the military, to the economy, to the American people, to the... Read more

Dave Gorman's Pub Olympics

By: Dave Gorman & Dave Scott

Narrated by: Dave Gorman & Guests

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Gorman hosts a one-off, very silly panel show that takes place in a world where the Pub Olympics is far more important than that other Olympics you might have heard about. Contestants Chris Addison, Roisin Conaty, Geoff Lloyd and Seymour Mace compete for gold medals in a series of ridiculous rounds, very loosely based on sports. Usain Bolt... Read more

Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series

By: Ben Elton & Richard Curtis

Narrated by: Full Cast, Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Rik...

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete soundtracks of all four Blackadder series, plus over three hours of specials and extras

Through the ages of Britain, from the 15th century to the 21st, Edmund Blackadder has meddled his way along the bloodlines, aided by his two imbecilic sidekicks, Lord Percy and Baldrick, and hindered by an assortment of dimwitted aristocrats. With... Read more

People Like Us

By: John Morton

Narrated by: Chris Langham & Full Cast

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Intrepid broadcaster Roy Mallard sets out to give us an insight into the lives of ordinary people in these two episodes form the original BBC Radio 4 series: 'The Headmaster' and 'The Solicitor'. Roy tackles the burning educational issues of the day with comprehensive school headmaster Nigel Peacock, and Nicola and Graham Broadbent are... Read more

Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance®

By: Robert M. Pirsig & Peter Flannery

Narrated by: James Purefoy & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An odyssey into life’s challenging questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance became an instant bestseller upon its publication in 1974. A powerful examination of how we live, as well as a... Read more

Vasily Grossman From The Front Line

By: Vasily Grossman

Narrated by: Elliot Levey

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Vasily Grossman, author of Life and Fate, was transformed by his experiences as a war correspondent. Following the shock invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Grossman volunteered for front line duty. Declared unfit for active service he was assigned to Red Star newspaper as a special correspondent. In these BBC Radio programmes, Elliot... Read more

The Taking Part

By: Tim Franks

Narrated by: Tim Franks

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4 tackles the impending 2012 Olympics by going to the heart of the entire festival and celebrating not just the winning, but the taking part in one of the great contests from Olympic history. Presented by Tim Franks. Read more

Quote... Unquote

By: Nigel Rees

Narrated by: Nigel Rees, Various, Alan Bennett, Judi Dench, ...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This exclusive compilation was first published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 'Quote, Unquote'. It takes a fond look a the show in which celebrity guests are quizzed about quotations, famous and obscure, and invited to contribute their own quotes and anecdotes. From identifying Shakespearean dialogue, attributing witty last words and... Read more

David Hockney In His Own Words

By: David Hockney

Narrated by: David Hockney

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: No

David Hockney has been described as Britain's 'greatest living artist'. In this fascinating collection of archive interviews we hear - in his own words - about his paintings, his schooldays and the attitudes he had while growing up. Hockney discusses the influence that his family had on him, as well as his passion for drawing and his work rate.... Read more

A Monstrous Vitality

By: Andy Merriman

Narrated by: Full Cast & June Whitfield

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years her junior. First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Drama slot. With June Whitfield as Margaret, Ryan McCluskey as Malcolm, Sean Baker as Stringer, Gabrielle Lloyd as... Read more

Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.

By: Sam Wasson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate—is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complete account of the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. reveals... Read more

The Beautiful Fall

By: Alicia Drake

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Amid sequins and longing, celebrities and aspirants flocked to the heart of chic, and Paris became a hothouse of revelry, intrigue, and searing ambition. At the center of it all were fashion’s most beloved luminaries—Yves Saint Laurent, the reclusive enfant... Read more

I Am Spartacus!

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Michael Douglas

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From Kirk Douglas, Hollywood royalty and bestselling author of The Ragman’s Son and My Stroke of Luck, comes the candid story of the making of Spartacus, the blockbuster film that broke the blacklistOne of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction... Read more

NPR Road Trips: Fairs and Festivals

By: NPR

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Step right up as the gates swing open at fairgrounds across the USA. This delightful collection explores the unique joys of the public gatherings that take place in cities and small towns, when people of all stripes and sizes meet to gawk at cows, ponder seed art, get hypnotized, compete in husband-calling contests, and eat virtually anything on... Read more

Torchwood Mr Invincible

By: Joseph Lidster

Narrated by: Tom Price

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ross Chapman is one of life's losers. So when he survives a point-blank shooting, dons a superhero costume and becomes a crime-busting vigilante, something strange is clearly going on. And Ross's transformation isn't the only odd thing happening in Cardiff. Time is distorting - around the city, some people are aging, dying and decomposing in a... Read more

Legacy Blood On The Mountains (Woman's Hour Drama)

By: Cath Staincliffe

Narrated by: Claire Keelan, Full Cast & William Ash

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In this drama by Cath Staincliffe, probate researchers Dan and Rachel search backwards through the family line to find the true heir and get a slice of the fortune. But their quest leads them to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. Henry Gaunt has died leaving a sizeable estate but no will. His step-sister can't inherit and there are... Read more

Ditched

By: Doug Lucie

Narrated by: Adrian Lukis, Alison Pettitt, Brendan Patricks,...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Doug Lucie's satirical sequel to 'Hitched' revisits the bride and groom, Emma and Richard, two years after their big day. The honeymoon is well and truly over and wedded bliss hasn't turned out to be, well, blissful. With their relationship at crisis point, Emma returns from America with her young daughter to discover her life isn't the only one... Read more

The Comedy Greats

By: Russell Davis & Clive Coleman

Narrated by: Russell Davis & Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A celebration of one hundred years of outstanding comic performers from music hall, radio and television. Researched, compiled and presented by Russell Davies, the collection includes a wide range of personalities, from the Crazy Gang to John Cleese and from Tallulah Bankhead to Victoria Wood. Read more

The Glums

By: Frank Muir

Narrated by: Dick Bently, Jimmy Edwards & June Whitfield

Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight 'Take It From Here' radio episodes from the 1950s, featuring Ron and Eth Glum. Jimmy Edwards stars as the beer-swilling head of the Glum household, with Dick Bentley as Ron and June Whitfield as Eth. Read more